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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Happy Birthday Water Color Card for THE CUTTING CAFE

I really enjoyed making this card. I started with Regina's THE CUTTING CAFE You Color My World digi stamp set & printed out the image larger than normal. It's a PDF, so you just print at 130% instead of 100%. I wanted to make my own background paper using the printable & water colors.

The water color looked nice, but it seemed to be lacking something, so out came some Tattered Angels clear shimmer spray. It made the printed lines bleed a little and added a really nice shimmer you can't quite see here. Then I added some glitter glue. All this wet work required waiting over night to finish the card. I KNOW, I am not patient either...it was hard to wait!

I trimmed the edges off and then cut out that scallop near the top for a faux shaker card look. I used a little of the clear cardstock that Regina sells and then matted the whole thing up, after adding some sequins and some little baby gems.